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Clouds / Les nuages

Clouds

standing so still
up there

each cloud
a cloud on a blue canvas

here
on paper

clouds
in a  word.

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Les nuages

se tenant si immobile
au-dessus

chaque nuage
un nuage sur une toile bleue

ici
sur le papier

les nuages
dans un mot.

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2008
Traduction: Françoise Parouty
Publié: Comme en Poésie, 2009

One Response to “Clouds / Les nuages”

  1. Sanford Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Of course, we can’t always run off
    to the beach or wait for October:
    we need words to hold onto things:

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